MLK is just a blank slate for liberals to launder feelings of righteousness towards whatever contemporary position they need to support. Which conveniently never includes liberation movements, poverty alleviation, or civil rights.

The white moderate is puppeteering the foggy memory of MLK into serving oppression. Any figure they can't do that with will get the Stalin treatment.

Lenin has been continually proven correct for the past century:

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

Literacy in the English speaking world has a tendency to say, “the text says” instead of “the author says” and there’s conjecture that that majorly affects the way that kids relate to texts while learning. It makes them more authoritative which, given that a lot literacy instruction has its roots in learning to read the Bible, makes quite a bit of sense.

Like the way liberals love to pull out one random Marx quote as though that counters his every argument. So what? He wasn't a prophet and his words aren't scripture that doesn't mean you can discount everything he had to say